With two films about the Indonesian genocide, the Oscar-nominated ‘The Act of Killing’ and this month’s ‘The Look of Silence,’ director Joshua Oppenheimer — aided by an anonymous codirector — shines light on an unspeakable tragedy

In 2011, 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was killed in his upstate New York home. Years passed with no arrest, and now Nick Hillary, a former college soccer coach and an ex-boyfriend of Phillips’s mother, awaits trial on a murder charge. But Hillary and a vocal group of supporters say that he has been wrongfully accused.

Arian Foster Wants to Free the Cats

Would you like to go a journey with Arian Foster? It involves a series of tweets, and I’m sorry about that up front. Articles full of tweets are usually miserable, so if you want to get out now, go for it. But there’s a higher purpose here. A cause, a calling.

It started last night.

I was on a flight, sitting on the runway, when I saw the Texans running back come through with what might be one of the greatest athlete tweets of all time. We should put this in the NFL Hall of Fame.

That emerged after an earlier discussion of Fox News and liberals and Foster not taking any one side in the battle. But the context is irrelevant. It’s just important that it happened. All the stupid puns about white power and Aryan Nation? They were all worth it, because they were all just setting us up for that. It’s like his whole life was building up to that joke. If we’re lucky, we’ll never hear about “libertarians” again without thinking Arian Foster minus the libert.

But that was just the intro. That’s what hooked me in.

Then I was still sitting on the runaway, and I started scrolling through the rest of his timeline. So next I see him encounter an insufferable hater, because the Internet is full of insufferable haters:

I don’t know if he was referring to that specific guy’s cat or all cats everywhere, but either way, IT’S TRUE. One of his followers tweets him a video explaining that science supports his Twitter jokes.

We could’ve written more about the NBA playoffs today, but no. What’s more important than cats’ rights? Now it’s Memorial Day weekend, and it’s up to you to carry the message. Have a great day and #FREE #THE #CATS.

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